Many people who helped the GOP win nominal control of both houses of Congress and the presidency are unhappy with the results. At the moment, Congress's failure to implement its promise to reverse
Obamacare's socialist government takeover of the U.S. health sector is the most obvious reason for this unhappiness. Though Obama's White House took the lead in formulating and fighting for the
passage of Obamacare, some people who voted for Donald Trump are loath to think about the lack of organized leadership from the White House in the effort to undo it. Others blame the GOP leaders in
Congress, who showed about as much competence and courageous vision in their efforts to reverse Obamacare as they did in their opposition to its passage.

It's telling that, in what should have been effective efforts to mobilize the strong opposition to Obamacare that helped fuel Donald Trump's victory in the last election, they were willing to settle for mere slogans
("repeal Obamacare" or "repeal and replace" Obamacare). This may be sufficient to mobilize negative feelings at election time, but when it comes to
mobilizing public support for legislation, persuasion requires getting people to commit to a positive purpose, especially when replacing a policy initiative touted in terms of all the positive things it would do
for people supposedly left without access to America's scientifically advanced health-care services.

Arguments that prove that Obamacare isn't working, isn't reaching, isn't delivering surely raise the anxiety quotient of people who thought they would be benefited by it. But the key is to turn their
disappointment with bad results into renewed confidence that better results will be achieved by dismantling it. Many in the GOP's voter base are there because the party's longstanding emphasis on
private-sector economic approaches resonates with their own thinking and aspirations. The socialist promotion of Obamacare relied on cultivating the largely false assumption that the private sector simply
failed to assure adequate access to quality health care for too many of our people. The advocates of socialism in health care define the private sector as the problem, and government regulation and
control as the solution.

The GOP voter base includes many people unconvinced by this propaganda. They have the right to expect that the party that touts its commitment to liberty and free enterprise would refute that
propaganda with references to facts showing that the government's welfare and regulatory schemes have largely contributed to rising costs, while promoting unfunded demands for services that make
expanding them financially threatening to health-care institutions. The GOP's constituency have the right to expect that the party that purports to respect the moral premises of liberty would also highlight
the contradiction between promoting risky sexual behaviors as "rights," for example, and the logic of solvency for health insurance, where the bottom line depends on maintaining a ratio between sickness and health
that benefits from responsibly self-disciplined behavior.

Encouraging people to make themselves sick and then taxing them to pay for the result isn't a recipe for providing better, more accessible health services. It's a recipe for abusing control of access to
health services as a means of assuring political control over the people who need them. Socialism pretends to be all about what serves "the people." But it's really all about serving people up to be fodder for party machines, which allow would-be tyrants access to the powers of
government by ostensibly democratic means. This aim of power is what the elitist faction leaders in both political parties have in common.

Donald Trump's victory relied on a true grassroots desire to revolt against this twin-party sham. Yet the unified GOP control of the U.S. government that resulted from the last election has failed to deliver.
Instead, results in both foreign and domestic policy seem consistent with the agendas that have, since the end of the Reagan era, characterized the elitist faction's intentions for both the
Democratic and Republican parties. Those agendas are untrue to either party label. They lurch consistently toward liberty-usurping government power, implemented through expansive executive regulation and
bureaucracy.

This reflects the oligarchic vision of an increasingly powerful few. What has become of the conviction of right and rights, by God endowed, that encouraged, and relied on, the self-discipline of liberty, which
is freedom rightly used? Replaced by licentious delusions of unlimited freedom, the America dream of liberty appears to be fading into the age-old nightmare of Godless, outright tyranny of self-idolized
human power.

Will the White House save America from this regressive fate? The true meaning of American liberty requires that it arise from within, with the revival of our good faith and reverence, as a people.
But how will that happen, unless our hearts consent to be the temple of God, who made us – wherein we reverence the truth that only the offspring of His goodwill can be our salvation, whom He
has already anointed, sacrificed, and yet restored to life to offer us the way?

Alan Keyes

Dr. Keyes holds the distinction of being the only person ever to run against Barack Obama in a truly contested election – one featuring authentic moral conservatism vs. progressive liberalism – when they challenged each other for the open U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 2004... (more)

Dr. Keyes holds the distinction of being the only person ever to run against Barack Obama in a truly contested election – one featuring authentic moral conservatism vs. progressive liberalism – when they challenged each other for the open U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 2004.

During the Reagan years, Keyes was the highest-ranking black appointee in the Reagan Administration, serving as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations and as Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

He ran for president in 1996, 2000, and 2008, and was a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Maryland in 1988 and 1992, in addition to his 2004 candidacy for the U.S. Senate from Illinois.

He holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard and wrote his dissertation on constitutional theory.

His basic philosophy can best be described as "Declarationism" – since he relies on the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence to define the premises on which our country was founded, and to which it must remain committed if it is to survive. To Dr. Keyes, the Constitution itself cannot be faithfully interpreted, understood, or applied apart from the divinely-premised principles of the Declaration.

When Keyes ran for president in 2000, the media generally considered him the winner of the Republican primary debates, due to the persuasive eloquence of his defense of the unborn, opposition to unfair taxation, advocacy of school choice, promotion of family values, and focus on what he called "America's moral crisis." As a result, he became the host of MSNBC-TV's "Alan Keyes Is Making Sense" in 2002.

He is best known for thrusting the evil of abortion – which he considers our nation's "greatest moral challenge" – into the national spotlight.

Keyes is also a strong supporter of Israel, and in 2002 he was flown by the Israeli government to the Holy Land to receive an award for his staunch defense of Israel in the media. He is the only American ever to receive such an honor from the State of Israel.

When Keyes ran against Obama for the Senate in 2004, he did so because he was incensed the Democrat "community organizer" refused to support the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois on several occasions – a measure approved not long afterward by the U.S. Senate, 100 to 0.

Alan is available to address interested venues of students, educators, civic groups, professional organizations, public servants, political advocates, churches, and others who are interested in preserving our nation's institutions of liberty.

To arrange a speech or special appearance by Dr. Keyes, you can email him at: alan@<NOSPAM>loyaltoliberty.com.